Introduction to the Redivivus Issue
Journal of Business Anthropology
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Rethinking the MBA: a Turn to the Field within Business Education?
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General Business Anthropology. By Robert Guang Tian, Michael P. Lillis, and Alfons van Marrewijk. Miami FL: North American Business Press, 2010.
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Organizational Ethnography. By Daniel Neyland London: Sage Publications, 2008.
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Inside the Theatre of Business: Performance and Corporate Presentation Training
How are theatre-techniques used in business training? Do theatre-making skills represent a unique field of knowledge? In this case study, I consider the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s (NIDA) ‘Executive Presenter’ two- day course in Sydney, Austra…
Ready for Business: An Anthropology Graduate as Change Management Consultant
This paper is a historical, confessional and ethnographic account of a former change management consultant in a global consulting firm who later went on to complete a PhD in social anthropology. Locating herself as both the researcher and informant, th…
Crouching Standards, Hidden Morals: A Choreographed National Rebuttal of Cosmopolitan Designs
This case describes a sequence of events which started from allegations by non-government organizations of violations in the production unit of a global brand, and moved to (acrimonious) denials by the supplier and multinational buyers, fai…
Fieldwork Report: The Making of Lonely Planet Guide – On the ground research for the Encounter Guide Amsterdam, published in 2009 by Lonely Planet, and written by Zora O’Neill
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A Funky-Formal Fashion Collection: Struggling for a Creative Concept in HUGO BOSS
In this case study, we follow a group of five young talented fashion designers in HUGO BOSS charged with creating a new concept for the brand BOSS Orange. The concept is to be neither formal nor funky but, precisely, funky-formal. Based on ethnographic…
The Towards Silence Project: Multiple String Quartets Organize to Perform a New Musical Form in Spatially Variable and Distributed Conditions
This case describes an example of a collective making process in the field of performing arts. In 2009, multiple string quartets (many considered world class) organized to perform a new musical composition by Sir John Tavener. The composition cha…
What’s the Matter with Jarrettsville? Genre Classification as an Opportunistic Construct
The study of genre classifications within creative industries typically orients toward the maintenance of order within organizational and institutional contexts. This study takes up the case of Jarrettsville, a work of fiction published in the Un…
Field Report: An Academic Workshop
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Field Notes of Volunteer Work in Iwanuma
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Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. By John B. Thompson Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.
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What is Business Anthropology? An Ethnographic Study of an Explorative Workshop
The anthropology of organizations is always political; it might take place over shorter, as well as longer, time spans and in singular, pluralistic, or even virtual, settings. This paper addresses such issues by describing and analyzing fieldwork exper…
Practice and the Theory of Practice. Rereading Certeau’s Practice of Everyday Life
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New Year’s Day Performances as Nationalist Discourse in Bangladesh
Ekushey independence martyrdom nationalism New Year’s Day pahelā baiśākh partition performance Abstract Nationalism can be imagined in many ways. It can be ideologically inculcated from childhood, as Don Handelman (1998, 162–91) has shown to be the cas…
A Specter Is Haunting Pakistan!
the abject Hindus in Pakistan horror stories ideology Pakistan stereotypes the uncanny Urdu Abstract Urdu digests have a long history in Pakistan, and their contents include detective tales, science fiction, and love stories. The horror genre—found for…
Animal Slaughter and Religious Nationalism in Bhutan
Abstract Beside just the India-exiled, world famous Dalai Lama, and as a result of the global Tibetan diaspora in general, many eminent lamas within Vajrayana Buddhism have acquired a significant number of followers beyond Tibet and the South Asian rea…
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Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere– that is, asociety’s generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is explored through …
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A personal memory of David Graeber by his partner.
David Graeber: The impossible anthropology and the possible anarchy
These reflections in memory of David Graeber focus on some of the moments in his work that show at the same time certain objective limits of anthropology and the hidden strength of a political philosophy such as anarchism. It is his militant ethnograph…
Building new horizons of value, care and freedom
In this brief piece, I want to pay tribute to David Graeber for how he articulated the relation between value, care and freedom as a path toward more equal and fair livelihood horizons. I will consider the broad contribution of one of his most widely r…
Graeber on anarchy
The text presents three of Graeber’s reflections on anarchy, built on an anthropological perspective: the premises of anarchic organizations lay in egalitarianism, the presence of “spaces in between” and in intercultural creativity; the assembly as the…